Pistorius had competed in the individual 400-meter race but failed to make the final.
Instead, it reported that Ryan Lochte won the gold medal in the 400-meter individual medley, beating Michael Phelps.
Michael Phelps has a good shot to win the first swimming gold in the 400-meter individual medley Saturday.
Daley says he's now focused on the individual 10-meter event that starts Friday.
The U.S. had formidable firepower in the race: Richards-Ross had won the 400-meter individual gold here, and Felix had won the 200 meters.
Steve Furniss, bronze medalist in the men's 200-meter individual medley swimming event in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, went on to make swimsuits for champions.
If he makes it through the preliminaries, he'll have to swim in the finals of two events on Thursday, Aug. 2 that are just 30 minutes apart: The 200-meter backstroke and the 200-meter individual medley.
Either way, the race offers two fairly safe medals for the U.S. on a night when the Americans are likely to get two more in the women's 400-meter individual medley from Elizabeth Beisel and Caitlin Leverenz, though Australian Stephanie Rice should threaten as well.
On Sunday, Dana Vollmer should grab her first individual gold in the 100-meter butterfly, over Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom.
"To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400-meters and the 4x400-meter relay is a real honor, and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together, " he said last month.
She then took a seven-year break before returning for the 2000 Sydney Games, where she would win two gold relay medals and first individual Olympic medals: three bronzes medals in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly.
She won the 100-meter hurdles and 200-meter sprint, with at time in the hurdles that equaled the gold-medal time in the individual event in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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